NCT Ventures

NCT Ventures is a Columbus, Ohio-based venture capital firm with roots going back to 1986, when Founder and Managing Partner Rich Langdale sold his car to invest $5,000 in Digital Storage — a wholesaler of computer supplies — before going on to raise $375 million in venture capital across less than two years. Today, NCT backs seed and early-stage technology companies disrupting major industries in underserved Midwest markets. The firm manages 5 funds and leads rounds, deploying $250,000 to $1 million in early stages and up to $5 million as portfolio companies scale. Langdale is joined by Partner Bill Frank. NCT has made approximately 43 investments across SaaS, healthcare technology, data analytics, and enterprise software. Notable portfolio companies include Healthy Roster, a sports training and EMR platform for physical therapists that has raised $6.97 million alongside Queen City Angels and Rev1 Ventures; iUNU, an AI-powered platform for greenhouse operations whose $7.5 million Series A NCT led alongside BootstrapLabs, with the company going on to raise its Series B in April 2025 and reach $69.7 million in total funding; SafeChain; PopCom; Buzz Solutions; DOmedia, NCT's most recent investment in December 2025; and Heureka Software. A recent exit is Kapow, acquired by Bizly in February 2025. NCT has developed the Ideas-to-Business Model in partnership with The Center for Entrepreneurship at The Ohio State University, providing an infrastructure for taking early-stage ideas to market through defined development phases. This institutional partnership gives NCT a distinctive pipeline in a region where early-stage capital has historically been scarce, and allows the firm to engage founders before most funds would consider writing a check.